Our Website Design Course Curriculum

The course is intensive and as the curriculum is adjusted to suit each student, more aspects of website design may be included.

Web Page Fundamentals: - What makes a good web page, readability, legibility, layout, hyperlinks, the role of graphics, browser issues.

Website Fundamentals: - Colour schemes, consistency, branding, navigation, usability issues, accessibility.

Basic HTML: - Tags and attributes, Formatting, Tables.

Cascading Style Sheets: - Classes, browser support, layout.

Web Graphics: - Graphics editors, graphics formats, vector graphics, effects, manipulation, optimizing, colours and schemes.

Page Layout: - Navigation, browser concerns, screen sizes, colours, legibility.

Site Promotion: - Optimizing pages, META tags, search engines, server logs, compression, encryption.

Resources: - Links to programmes, graphics, Java, Javascript, HTML and tips archives.

Web Content Editing - Content structure, the inverted pyramid, web writing style.

Publishing: - Uploading your website to the internet.

Use of Javascript - Navigation, sticky content, windows.

Hit it Running!

Our course includes all software and plenty of links to resources. All these are explored so that the student knows exactly where to go to get a resource quickly.

At the end of the course, the student will have designed a website by himself and is quite capable of going on to design commercial websites. At any time after the course, our resources and expertise are always available to all our students at no charge.



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